Dachshund Melt and Pour Soap Recipe
by
Rebecca D. Dillon
(IC: blogger)
15 Materials
2 Hours
Medium
This darling dachshund melt and pour soap recipe is perfect for dachshund lovers who must have everything dachshund! You know who you are. (wink.) I'm one of those people too.
This easy dachshund melt and pour soap recipe does make a fantastic gift for any dog lover, but most especially us dachshund lovers. I've scented it with a combination fragrance blend of chocolate fragrance oil and lavender essential oil, and used a brown sparkle soap color bar to give the dachshund soap embed in the center a bit more visual interest.
This dachshund melt and pour soap recipe will yield six soap bars. It is important to note I used a basic, rather than a natural soap base, as the natural soap base tended to cool too quickly for neatly made soaps. However, you can experiment with other bases if you'd like and it's quite likely you may have more patience and a steadier hand than me.
Next, place your dachshund silicone mold onto a cutting board. Then pour the brown sparkle colored soap evenly into six of the dachshund shaped mold cavities.
Place the 6-cavity rectangular mold onto the cutting board or small cookie sheet. Then proceed by placing one dachshund soap into each of the six cavities of this mold.
Now weigh out 21 oz. of the white melt and pour soap base. Cut into cubes and combine in a large glass Pyrex measuring cup. Melt the soap in the microwave in 30-second increments, stirring after each heating, until almost completely melted. Add one square of the purple soap color and continue the process until the soap and color have melted completely. Stir well so the color is evenly incorporated throughout the soap base.
Allow the white soap base to cool a bit. (Pouring this soap too hot can cause some of the color from the dachshund embeds to escape into the surrounding purple tinted soap.) Once the soap base has cooled a bit, weigh out and stir in the lavender essential oil.
Now slowly and carefully pour this soap base into the 6-cavity rectangular soap mold over and around the dachshund soap embeds. To help keep any soap from pooling under the dachshund embeds, I pushed my dachshund soap embeds into the mold cavities as I poured the soap until it was just under the height of the dachshunds. Then I went back and filled the mold cavities the rest of the way with the purple tinted soap.
Wrap your soaps tightly with food service film then pair with my DIY Conversation Heart Soaps and gift to your favorite dachshund lover!
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Suggested materials:
- 3 oz. Crafter's Choice (or similar) clear basic melt and pour soap base
- 21 oz. Crafter's Choice (or similar) white basic melt and pour soap base
- .05 oz. Crafter's Choice (or similar) chocolate fragrance oil
- .2 oz. lavender essential oil
- Crafter's Choice (or similar) brown sparkle color bar, 1/8th of one square
- Crafter's Choice (or similar) neon purple playdate soap color bar, 1 square
- Dachshund Shaped Ice Cube Tray
- Ozera 6-Cavity Silicone Soap Mold
- Spray bottle with isopropyl (rubbing) alcohol
- Large glass Pyrex measuring cup
- Cutting board
- Utensils for stirring
- Chef's knife
- Digital scale
- Microwave
Want more details about this and other DIY projects? Check out my blog post!
Published June 11th, 2016 11:28 AM
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